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The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal on 3 July ordered France's National Council for Private Security Activities (CNAPS) to reinstate [...]

The businessman at the heart of plans to launch a huge semiconductor manufacturing and data centre with the government of [...]

France's DGSE foreign intelligence service has issued a call for tenders for training in “defensive and evasive driving”.

Originally slated for November, Buenos Aires has brought forward to September its plans for a trip to Beijing for the Argentine foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, and the secretary-general of the presidency, Karina Milei (the Argentine president's sister) to discuss a [...]

From new offices in Indonesia and Tonga to military and police exercises in South-East Asia and Africa, especially in Ethiopia, [...]

Authorities from the United States and the European Union are continuing to keep a close eye on several high-profile corruption [...]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on 18 August announced the expulsion “in the very near future” of two Iranian diplomats. To avoid any escalation, the individuals are not linked to intelligence.

The upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been in turmoil in Beijing for the last few days. To mark the centenary of the birth of former president Jiang Zemin, (1926-2022), a solemn commemorative ceremony was held on [...]

Kirill Dmitriev is expected to lose his status as Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation [...]

In recent months, France's DRSD military intelligence agency has issued several espionage risk warnings linked to vehicles made by China's [...]

An article about the Grandview Institution (GVI) think-tank published in the Financial Times late last year sparked debate in the [...]

It's an open secret. When Intelligence Online asked a French diplomatic source about the reputation of the Beijing-based think-tank Grandview Institution (GVI) that individual made no attempt to evade the issue and confirmed that GVI is reputed to have close [...]

Yann Vézilier, an officer from France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency who was arrested in Mali on 14 August 2025 on [...]

The creation of the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order, destined to be the world's smallest state and often described [...]

Belgium's VSSE civilian intelligence and security service is due to renew its executive team this year. Intelligence Online has learned some job postings have been reopened after the initial selection phase was to have concluded.

Oil and chemical tanker MT Asana, operating under the Tanzanian flag, was boarded and rerouted by seven Somali pirates about 100 kilometres off the coast of Yemen's Shabwa Governorate on 17 July. The head of maritime intelligence for the neighbouring [...]

Croatian spymaster Daniel Markic (IO, 08/05/26), director of the European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), is to have a [...]

The French armed forces ministry in early July commissioned Alt/A to carry out a prospective and strategic study on "Mechanisms [...]

FBI director Kash Patel met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Indonesian President Prabowo [...]

An offer posted on encrypted messaging app Telegram on 26 February by an account claiming to belong to the cybercriminal group Lapsus$, has alarmed cybersecurity experts. Lapsus$ is an international group that claims to be apolitical and not affiliated with [...]